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lets face it...most of the times movie based games SUCK! but like everything there are few exceptions.. what movie based games are good in your opinion? to me...
batman returns on the snes
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and ghostbusters one the genesis
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Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay XBOX
Batman NES and Genesis
Felix the Cat for the NES... if it's based off the animated movie from the late 80s-early 90s.
I also thoroughly enjoyed Jurassic Park for the Genesis and Aladdin for the SNES.
Terminator (SCD version) and Alien 3 come to mind as a couple of movie licensed games that I really enjoyed. I also found the SCD versions of Demolition Man and Hook to be pretty fun games.
I have the game that was based off the first Spider-man movie on PS2 and its not too bad. There's a pretty neat trick/cheat that lets you play as the Green Goblin. I also enjoy LOTR : ROTK on PS2. Its a pretty neat modern hack n slash/beat em up with really nice graphics.
Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)
The Lion King (Mega Drive)
Aladdin (Mega Drive)
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (PC)
The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth (PC)
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (PC)
Back to the Future (PC)
And a great bunch of Star Wars games. Too many to name...
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It's much better than it sounds.
Genesis/Sega CD:
Aladdin: Sega Genesis
The Lion King: Sega Genesis
The Jungle Book: Sega Genesis
True Lies: Sega Genesis
Judge Dredd: Sega Genesis
Predator 2: Sega Genesis
Rambo III: Sega Genesis
Demolition Man: Sega Genesis
Universal Soldier: Sega Genesis (A Turrican II relabeling, but a good game, nonetheless)
The Terminator: Sega Genesis
The Terminator: Sega CD
Robocop III: Sega Genesis (not even half of what RvsT is on the Genesis, but still playable)
PS2:
Treasure Island
Most of the above and this:
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Pretty decent game and the best version on any system.
Most of the Star Wars games are pretty good.
My favorites are Jurassic Park and Home Alone for Mega Drive.
Would "New Ghostbusters II" on the NES count?
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Not sure if there's some diehard rule that the title needs to be exactly the same as the movie.
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Tron - especially Deadly Discs on Intellivision and Discs of Tron in the arcade.
Goldeneye for N64! Best movie licensed game ever made.
Aladdin is the best one on the Genesis (of the ones I've played).
The Warriors ps2/xbox
A damn fun brawler and the way Rockstar Games handled the story was really cool. The events from the movie take place as the last third of the game.
Data East's Robocop arcade version was a decent quarter muncher.
I've always been curious about this game; I like brawlers and have heard good things about The Warriors. Only way I could play it now, though, is via PSP, which is a bit crippled for inputs.Quote:
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License-wise, I like what was done with Rocky Balboa on PSP. The gameplay is the only knock against it IMO.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Super Star Wars trilogy and Indiana Jones on the SNES!
I remember playing the Emperor's New Groove on the PSOne, it was surprisingly good!
i remember renting Hercules and liking it,but I haven't played it in a long time though.
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Fine, ignore it
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TMNT:TTF was the only game where I actually participated in a tournament.. never got far against other kids though >.>
Aliens Versus Predator (PC)
Gremlins 2 (NES)
Home Alone (Mega Drive)
Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)
Jurassic Park Rampage Edition (Mega Drive)
Jurassic Park Trespasser, because of Hammond's history on InGEN (PC)
Star Wars (NES/SMS)
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (NES)
Terminator (Mega Drive)
Toy Story (Mega Drive)
Yes. Very much so.Quote:
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It's an incredible shame they didn't just port it to the GBA and replace that version with the GBC version... it'd have made the GBA edition far better. :p
Genesis Toy Story
Gamecube Meet the Robinsons
Xbox Over the Hedge
PSX 007 Racing
PSX Speed Racer
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I'd rep you if I could. ;)
I wouldn't call it the best, but I do have a personal love for Ghostbusters on the SMS. It's garnered a poor reputation almost entirely due to the AVGN and the awful NES port, but BITD, C64 users and SMS owners both used to talk proudly about the game.
I fucking LOVED this game on my 8088. Unfortunately, the first time you ran the game, it would, without telling you, copy a file off of disk 1 onto your HDD, and then delete the file from the floppy. Without that file, the game wouldn't run, and since it did so without telling you first, unless you asked around on a BBS, you had no idea. It was a primitive form of copy protection, but when my 8088's first HDD died, it locked me out of the game. Years and years later, I'd eventually buy the arcade PCB and it was even more awesome than the 8088 version I knew and loved.Quote:
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+rep for a great game
How about some love for the best Mario clone on the genesis?
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Basically a true follow up to Tiny Toon Adventures on the NES, and way better than Buster's Hidden Treasure. I was a huge Tiny Toons fan when I got this game at launch, and I picked it up mainly for the license without knowing anything about the actual game. Wound up being one of my all-time favorite sega games. The last few levels, especially the boss fight against Elmyra, are so damn hard.
As for actual licensed games based off of movies:
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What a great game all around. Easily the best terminator game ever made. And miles better than the genesis version.
I typically don't play movie games because they are usually bad, but the following ones are games I actually did enjoy and seemed to stick out from the typical bad movie games.
Power Rangers The Movie (Genesis)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (all versions)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets (all versions)
Goldeneye (N64)
Star Wars The Phantom Menace (PC/PS1)
Yes; great game. It even has an unlockable 2d scroller mini-game thrown in, ala Final Fight which is pretty cool and fun.Quote:
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Played this a few days back after hearing so many praises for it; found it a unfun, glitchy mess tbh.Quote:
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RoboCop 2 was also a damn good game too. And it's two player too!Quote:
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My favorites:
Batman Returns - SNES
Batman Forever: The Arcade - Saturn (I know people give this game shit, but I love it!)
Super Star Wars trilogy - SNES
Lego Star Wars 1 & 2 - XBOX - Follows the movies decently enough and are fun to play. Not really a fan of other Legos games though.
Star Wars Episode 3 - Xbox
Die Hard Trilogy - PS
Terminator 3: Redemption - Xbox - I LOVE this game! May have to get it out tonight and play it!
T2: The Arcade Game - SNES
Jurassic Park - Genesis
Alien 3 - SNES & Genesis
Those are the only ones I can think of at the moment. Now there are some games I like that are spin offs, but not necessarily a movie in particular. The last Evil Dead game (Regeneration) is one such game. I even like the F13th NES game, but it's not based on any movie, but rather just a generalization of the series.
I recently tried out the Batman Forever arcade game on MAME and it wasn't that bad! Plus it has Batman releasing thunder and shit. Plus he can randomly shrink for no reason.
And that's why it's good.
And it kinda felt like a spiritual successor to Konami's Batman Returns on SNES, and it did have some things from it (flinging bad guys against walls, windows and such)
Just a random list of games I think turned out just fine.
Master System:
Rambo First Blood Part II
NES:
Sunsoft Batman
Genesis:
Sunsoft Batman
Ghostbusters
Rambo III (!!!!)
Dick Tracy
Jurassic Park + Rampage Edition
Aladdin
Sega CD:
Jurassic Park
Terminator
That's about it for me until Iron Man on 360 made me feel like I was playing a flight sim and Space Harrier at the same time.
Then there's the unlicensed but obviously movie influenced stuff:
After Burner (Top Gun)
Castlevania
Golden Axe (Conan the Barbarian)
Ikari Warriors
Rampage
Rastan
Revenge of Shinobi (Everything)
TMNT for GBA
Aliens (arcade)
Alien 3: The Gun (arcade)
Krull (arcade)
Batman Begins (PS2/Xbox) aka Diet Splinter Cell lol
007 Quantum Of Solace (PS2)
Dick Tracy (Genesis)
The Lost World Jurassic Park (Genesis) I thought people liked this game I guess not.
Megadrive games:
Batman
Rambo III
The Terminator (Mega CD game is good too - technically better, but I prefer to play through this in 20 minutes ;) )
Addams Family Values
Lion King
Aladdin
Moonwalker
SNES: Batman Returns
Saturn: Jurassic Park: The Lost World
N64: Goldeneye, Star Wars Racer
Game Gear: Batman Returns (try it, it's far better than the other Sega versions)
Surf Ninjas for Game Gear. A quality game for a quality film.